Sea of Cortez Liveaboard Diving Expedition
La Paz, Mexico
Trip Type: Multi-day Tours
Duration: 6 days
Fall is the best time of year to dive the Sea of Cortez as it offers the best visibility, warmest water and calmest seas of the season. Enjoy a liveaboard diving expedition in these waters as you spend 5 nights and 4 days exploring and discovering this place. You will travel a distance with an itinerary that visits different dive sites over the course of several days. This tour offers a great variety of diving experiences, a sea lion habitat where the sea lions come out to play, warm water wrecks and reefs with beautiful shallow water marine life, deep water dive sites known for hammerhead sharks, manta rays and larger pelagic fish, and night diving with mobula rays. You will also spend half a day snorkeling with whale sharks. Jacques Cousteau called this sea the “aquarium of the world” and “the Galapagos of North America”. You can see this yourself on this tour.
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Fall is the best time of year to dive the Sea of Cortez as it offers the best visibility, warmest water and calmest seas of the season. Enjoy a liveaboard diving expedition in these waters as you spend 5 nights and 4 days exploring and discovering this place. You will travel a distance with an itinerary that visits different dive sites over the course of several days. This tour offers a great variety of diving experiences, a sea lion habitat where the sea lions come out to play, warm water wrecks and reefs with beautiful shallow water marine life, deep water dive sites known for hammerhead sharks, manta rays and larger pelagic fish, and night diving with mobula rays. You will also spend half a day snorkeling with whale sharks. Jacques Cousteau called this sea the “aquarium of the world” and “the Galapagos of North America”. You can see this yourself on this tour.Spend 6 days and 5 nights onboard the MV Adventure. Your small-group tour limited to 12 people will give you the experience of a lifetime diving in the Sea of Cortez. You will be with 2 divemasters, a naturalist and a divemaster safety officer and have an unforgettable experience.
Day 1: Arrive in La Paz
The expedition begins as you are greeted by your driver and transferred from the Cabo Airport/Los Barilles to the MV Adventure ship, located at Marina Singular in La Paz. For those arriving on their own, the ship will be available for boarding after 5:00 pm. You will climb onboard the ship and settle in. Then, you will enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail with dinner set for 7:30pm as the ship departs the Bay of La Paz. You and your group will anchor for the night in a quiet bay at the entrance to the Sea of Cortez.
Days 2 to 5: Diving and Snorkeling in the Sea of Cortez
During day 2 to 5, your journey will involve exploring and diving in different areas in the Sea of Cortez. Some of the islands to be explored include Isla Espiritu Santos, Isla San Francisco, Isla San Jose, Isla Partida, and Isla San Diego. Some of the dive sites include Las Animas, El Bajo Seamount, the sea lion habitat of Los Isolotes, Fang Ming and Salvatierra ship wrecks. Due to wind, tide, current and sea conditions, accessibility of some of the areas may be limited or simply not possible. On day 5, you will spend the morning snorkeling with whale sharks. Then, in the afternoon and just before dusk, you will enjoy 2 scheduled.
Day 6: End of Expedition
You will return to La Paz and depart at around 10am as your driver will drop you off at Los Barilles or the Cabo Airport for your departure flight home.
Important Information:
Day 1: Arrive in La Paz
The expedition begins as you are greeted by your driver and transferred from the Cabo Airport/Los Barilles to the MV Adventure ship, located at Marina Singular in La Paz. For those arriving on their own, the ship will be available for boarding after 5:00 pm. You will climb onboard the ship and settle in. Then, you will enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail with dinner set for 7:30pm as the ship departs the Bay of La Paz. You and your group will anchor for the night in a quiet bay at the entrance to the Sea of Cortez.
Days 2 to 5: Diving and Snorkeling in the Sea of Cortez
During day 2 to 5, your journey will involve exploring and diving in different areas in the Sea of Cortez. Some of the islands to be explored include Isla Espiritu Santos, Isla San Francisco, Isla San Jose, Isla Partida, and Isla San Diego. Some of the dive sites include Las Animas, El Bajo Seamount, the sea lion habitat of Los Isolotes, Fang Ming and Salvatierra ship wrecks. Due to wind, tide, current and sea conditions, accessibility of some of the areas may be limited or simply not possible. On day 5, you will spend the morning snorkeling with whale sharks. Then, in the afternoon and just before dusk, you will enjoy 2 scheduled.
Day 6: End of Expedition
You will return to La Paz and depart at around 10am as your driver will drop you off at Los Barilles or the Cabo Airport for your departure flight home.
Important Information:
- Climate: During the month of November the average air temperatures range from 22-26 C (72-79f) and water temperatures from 20-24 C (68-75f) . A 5 mil or 7 mil wetsuit is suggested.
- Expedition Staff: Our senior marine naturalist/expedition leader has over 30 years of experience in the Baja spending much of her time exploring and teaching about the natural history of the marine environment. Accompanied by 2 dive masters and a safety officer, the goal is to blend adventure travel with education, providing participants with an unforgettable educational dive experience.
- Ship Info: The "MV Adventure” is a 117’ steel hull ship. As a certified passenger vessel, all crew, vessel paperwork, safety and navigation equipment meet the legal requirements under the “Nacional de Seguridad Maritima” laws. As a dive liveaboard we offer courtesy tanks, air and weights.
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